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Illinois state police arrested a dentist Wednesday on warrants charging him with five counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance to an undercover agent. Named in the warrants was Dr. George J. Cozzolino, 46, of La Grange, who has a dental practice at the Madison-Parkside Clinic, 5650 W. Madison St., said Lt. Stephen Miller of the state police office in Elmhurst. State agents reported that Cozzolino wrote prescriptions for Tylenol aspirin with codeine, a controlled substance, without medical needs and knowing the drug would be resold on the street.

Dr. Oakley B. Davy Sr., 96, a longtime dentist from Evanston and a World War I veteran, died Friday at Evanston Hospital. Born in De Kalb, he graduated from Northwestern University Dental School in 1914 and joined the Army, serving in World War I in the dental corps. When he returned from service, he set up private practice in Evanston and was the second president of the Evanston Association of Dentists. His son, Oakley Jr., joined his father's practice after graduating from dental school.

Dr. Maurice Strom, 80, a dentist who practiced on Chicago's Northwest Side for half a century, died Friday in Columbus Hospital in Chicago. Dr. Strom, who lived in Lincolnwood, was a veteran of World War II, serving in the U.S. Army Medical Corps as a dentist. "He was very good with people; he had a way of making them feel comfortable," when patients arrived at his office, recalled his wife, Phyllis Strom. A native of Waterloo, Iowa, Dr. Strom had lived in Chicago since he was a young boy, she said.

Dr. Ralph William Muchow, a retired dentist, was a nationally ranked Ping-Pong player in the late 1930s who also operated a private, not-for-profit museum of 3,400 working antique radios. Dr. Muchow, 83, died Saturday, March 4, in his home. The 54-year Elgin resident, who was inducted into the city's Sports Hall of Fame in 1988, was the top-ranked table-tennis player in Illinois and second nationwide in open play from 1937 to 1939. "Ralph was a Ping-Pong champion during his college years," said Don Sleeman, a friend and fellow member of American Legion Post 57, Elgin.

Dear Ann Landers: My dentist saved my life. Last February, at the end of a routine checkup, he examined my neck and asked me about a lump under my jaw. I had assumed it was a swollen gland and nothing to worry about. He had other ideas and advised me to get it checked right away. He was right. I had throat cancer and it already had spread to my lymph nodes. I have since undergone surgery and radiation and am now on my way back to a normal life. Very few of my friends have dentists who examine their necks during regular checkups.

A suburban dentist was arrested Tuesday for allegedly harassing a former classmate from Northern Illinois University with bombs and shootings because of a grudge stemming from their college days 14 years ago. Another man who is suspected of helping to make the bombs also was arrested, and Chicago police and agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said they confiscated collections of guns from the homes of both suspects....

CLEVELAND — An infected root canal prompted John Danks to visit a dentist Saturday but shouldn't prevent him from making his first start Sunday. Danks, who won a career-high 15 games in 2010, will be making his first start in what he and the White Sox view as a gradual progression to becoming the ace of the staff eventually and a replacement for Mark Buehrle. "It might be a little too soon, but he has that kind of stuff," manager Ozzie Guillen said. "I think Danks is special, maybe because he hangs around Buehrle and he picks Buehrle's mind about how to go about the business.

Jason McDonald, 30, is an established dentist in Oak Park with a six-figure salary and regular patients. The price tag for this impressive career: $275,000 in student loans, for which he makes monthly payments of $3,000. McDonald graduated from the University of Iowa in 2004 debt-free, thanks to his parents, who paid for his undergraduate degree. But when the deadline to accept admission to Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland came before he had heard back from the Illinois schools to which he had applied, he made the decision that will be with him for at least another decade.

Dr. William Dorfman wants to get his hands on Tom Cruise's teeth. "They're terrible," said Dorfman. "His two front teeth are different sizes. They looked so bad when he was on the cover of last November's GQ that I wrote him a letter saying he should come see me." If anyone could be trusted to tinker with Top Gun's top teeth, it's Dorfman, who has looked down the throat of many a Hollywood heartthrob. Recently named "best cosmetic dentist in L.A." by Los Angeles magazine, the 39-year-old tooth authority specializes in straightening, bleaching, bonding and veneering teeth that can be seen on screens both big and small.

A dentist who works in two Chicago-area clinics was found guilty Monday of battery for fondling a female patient during an appointment. Shabibudheen Abdur-Rahim, 37, appeared in Cook County Circuit Court on Monday before Judge William O'Malley, who ruled the dentist will have to attend counseling for sex offenders and undergo a psychological evaluation during a yearlong probation. Abdur-Rahim was accused of fondling a 20-year-old patient during a Feb. 28 tooth cleaning. The dentist has an office in Chicago and another in Niles.